Professor Bruce Hood, of the University of Bristol, speaks of the human tendency "to blow things out of proportion…[focusing] on our own failings or inadequacies". He runs ten-week courses at Bristol ...

A new study shows that supports at the individual, relational, and community levels work together to foster resilience, ...

Lukas Lengersdorff and Claus Lamm discuss three misconceptions that stand in the way of an informed discussion.

In her first column, APS President Randi Martin makes the case for collaborative research that cuts across research areas. In ...

Podcast: Under the Cortex features Michael Kramer from the University of Zurich to discuss how, as individuals step up to ...

OCD can be treated, but people with the disorder tend to have a lower quality of life than neurotypical people. A recent ...

Teaching: Lesson plans about the changeability or controllability of traits that other people possess and how they can play a ...

It’s tempting, of course, to turn this type of manageable task into an existential undertaking. “Instead of thinking, I’m going to spend an hour this week on paperwork, it becomes, I’m going to be an ...

Stephen Hinshaw, a professor of psychology at the University of California, Berkeley, who studies A.D.H.D. but was not involved in the new British research, described the study as “a major finding,” ...

With the right therapist, you should feel safe and respected. You should not feel as though you’re being secretly judged.With that in mind, try to speak with more than one therapist before committing.

NPR graphics reporter Daniel Wood — a busy dad of three — says he's been able to maintain "a workout cadence I've never, ever had before."The secret to his good exercise ...

In terms of helping to convince people that information is true and trustworthy, “fact-checking does work”, says Sander van der Linden, a social psychologist at the University of Cambridge, UK, who ...